From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265427AbUBFLPz (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 06:15:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265433AbUBFLPz (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 06:15:55 -0500 Received: from imap.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:3536 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265427AbUBFLPw (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 06:15:52 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <40237765.6080602@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:15:49 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" CC: Daniel Drake , Craig Bradney , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Luis_Miguel_Garc=EDa?= , david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.verweij@student.tudelft.nl Subject: Re: [ACPI] acpi problem with nforce motherboards and ethernet References: <402298C7.5050405@wanadoo.es> <40229D2C.20701@blue-labs.org> <4022B55B.1090309@wanadoo.es> <20040205154059.6649dd74.akpm@osdl.org> <1076026496.16107.23.camel@athlonxp.bradney.info> <4022DE3C.1080905@wanadoo.es> <4022E209.3040909@gmx.de> <4022E3C8.4020704@wanadoo.es> <4022E69B.5070606@gmx.de> <1076029281.23586.36.camel@athlonxp.bradney.info> <40235DBA.4030408@gmx.de> <1076062051.16107.49.camel@athlonxp.bradney.info> <40236F06.5050103@gmx.de> <40236207.7050104@reactivated.net> <402374B0.8080907@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <402374B0.8080907@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > >> Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: >> >>> Ok, then it makes sense, so you are using APIc with CPU Disconnect >>> and Ross' patch. This explains your low idle temps. As I said this >>> config doesn't work for me. >> >> >> >> Have you experimented with the new apic_tack boot options in Ross's >> latest patches? >> apic_tack=2 seems to work best for me. > > > Stupid me. I haven't thoruoughly read the text. I have not activated the > patch, so I'll try this. thx for pointing out.. OK, I appended apic_tack=2 and yes, it survives several hdparms! Great, so gonna try if it is really stable.Then I can try =1. CPU cooling down. Already at 46°C. :-) Not bad,not bad, though I saw a small performace degration: hdparm gives me 60-61mb/s instead of >62mb/s, but I won't complain. :-) Prakash